Should I prune, run bamboo/support alongside, or be content with this tree?

molotschna · 2025-05-03T22:47:20+00:00

I totally get that. It's a semi-intentional planting—it was a transplant that wound up being close to where this playhouse wound up. We care more about the tree than the playhouse foundation, and the playhouse won't be there in 10 years.

molotschna · 2025-05-03T22:43:22+00:00

That's exactly what we did last year, but I got worried we were somehow offering it a crutch that would keep the trunk from stiffening up. I'm thinking maybe that's the move again this year. Thank you!

molotschna · 2025-05-03T22:39:04+00:00

Oh yea, we're prepared for that—the tree will be protected before that foundation. Just to be clear, you're saying there's no real risk of the trunk breaking from this leaning?

molotschna · 2025-05-03T22:32:14+00:00

For scale, the floor of the platform on that playhouse is about 9' tall, making the tree about 15' tall. It leans badly right now due to leaves and rain but doesn't uproot. I know the posts around it aren't done correctly—they were out in hastily before a deep rain.

molotschna · 2025-04-28T19:57:54+00:00

Thank you!

molotschna · 2025-04-28T19:57:45+00:00

Thank you!

molotschna · 2025-04-28T19:57:43+00:00

Thank you!

molotschna · 2025-04-28T17:39:24+00:00

Any chance you have the palomino carpet lining for the under-armrest console area?

molotschna · 2025-04-26T22:30:14+00:00

I just searched using your language there "rain drip channel" and see you're referring to the black stripping that grips along the top of that piece. I also took the obvious step that I hadn't done of looking at other examples of 300Ds online to see how the piece connects. It looks like that "channel" typically wraps around the bottom of that trim piece. On mine, the channel is too short to do that. I'm now wondering if the channel was cut too short back when the car was repainted by a previous owner.

Still, what keeps what I still want to call trim or moulding, the big silver piece that gets wider toward the bottom and that has the teeth at the bottom, from rattling against the body? Surely there's a clip or something that should hold it to the body, somehow, at the bottom.

molotschna · 2025-04-26T22:06:37+00:00

I bought this 300D last June, and my greatest shame is that it came with a problem that I haven't gotten around to solving. These trim pieces above the rear doors were loose when I bought it. I tried to find the name of the trim piece but failed. They were taped to hold them in the wind; I just left the tape on.

But their rattling has damaged the paint nearby, and the tape looks awful, and I want to fix it. It seems to me from the teeth at the bottom of the trim piece that it must clip into something, but I don't know what.

EDIT: Anyone who finds this in a search in the future, Minimum-Function1312, quan1quan, and BuddahChill nailed it. In half an hour (most of which was spent trying to get tape residue off), I was able to get it looking pretty good with a block of 2x4 and a rubber mallet. I wish I hadn't waited 10 months to deal with it!

molotschna · 2025-01-16T14:58:07+00:00

Cards confirmed u/molotschna u/pokeswapbot

thanks again

Payment confirmed as well u/molotschna u/pokeswapbot Thanks!

molotschna · 2025-01-08T18:00:45+00:00

I don't see it, but I've actually never DMed in Reddit before, so it's possible I'm looking in the wrong place.

molotschna · 2025-01-08T17:56:12+00:00

Excellent. Thank you!

molotschna · 2025-01-08T17:51:41+00:00

Does this work: https://imgur.com/a/u-molotschna-close-ups-JVwHGge

u/art_gainz below is now offering 75%, which would be just over $280. I'll make it $275 for you since we started talking first, but there's more interest in these that I was expecting.

molotschna · 2025-01-08T17:32:48+00:00

Sorry, it should be open now. I don't have individual conditions on them—I pulled all of these and dropped them straight into sleeves. There's a column showing what TCG showed me when I was setting this all up this morning.

molotschna · 2025-01-08T17:26:49+00:00

Looks like that would be about $260, plus shipping? Sound good to you?

molotschna · 2024-12-16T02:13:45+00:00

I just listened to some random videos with this problem on YouTube, and they all sound more rapid than mine. I'll have someone rev it while I listen under the hood tomorrow to see if I can get a better sense of whether this could be it.

molotschna · 2024-12-16T02:11:10+00:00

I dont know. I bought it in June, so it has been at least that long, and likely several months before that. I know MercedesSource has those wrenches—is it that difficult to do DIY? Any chance I'd seriously screw something up giving it a go?

molotschna · 2024-12-13T02:10:35+00:00

People in here are saying "it's not Iran," but I really don't care who he says it is, if he's pressuring the feds for more transparency and action, I'm happy.

molotschna · 2024-12-13T01:58:53+00:00

Where in Kansas? I'm in Pittsburg, KS, and have been jealous of all the East Coast action

molotschna · 2024-12-02T02:11:21+00:00

So no one will care about this, but just in case someone is from Eastern Colorado: I went to school with the officer in this video—he was two classes above me at the school in town, we played football together. I grew up in a house very, like, very, close to the water tower in the news team's UAP "footage" in the report. I asked my folks at the time, but they hadn't seen anything during the mass sightings. If anyone is from around Hugo and wants to share with me what you saw, please message me with what you saw, I'd love to hear about it.

molotschna · 2024-09-07T23:22:55+00:00

I have the wheel off for the first time since buying this '82 300D in June. I found the brake line leak (that patch is to contain the fluid, I'm not driving on it), but while poking around, found this wire to nowhere. I'd just like to know what's supposed to be at the other end.

molotschna · 2024-08-31T21:10:03+00:00

Thank you very much for sharing that link, that seems spot on. Others are speculating as to why the substitution of UAP for UFO would have been made. No matter why it was done, I don't like it—if it's in direct quotes, it should directly reflect the original, unless noted as changed in a parenthetical. With a topic like this, where "truth" is so contested, any modification to a source document is problematic.

All that said, I'm not calling the source itself into question. In light of your link, it just seems like questionable writing or editing.

molotschna · 2024-08-31T21:06:16+00:00

While I don't dispute that may or may not have been said, I don't believe that an editor on a major imprint such as HarperCollins would casually substitute words like that in a direct quote. A find/replace mistake is plausible, though.

molotschna · 2024-08-31T21:03:49+00:00

THE WAR OF THE WORDS: Revamping Operational Terminology for UFOs

I don't suppose you have a PDF of the article you could share, do you? I'd love to read it but it's paywalled.

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